This blog is a bit quieter these days (my main tends to see more regular updates), but I've failed to entirely kill it yet, so hello!
[updated 28/April/2024]
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plugging my own review because i have never been nor will i ever be normal about leverage season 5, episode 9: the rundown job
#rewatched this YESTERDAY and I never actually caught that eliot slides hardison's leg back to keep him steady#just keeping ahold of hardison's leg while parker uses his knee as a step stool#catching her foot when she's carefully climbing around hardison to get into position#things I never noticed without being told because it's kind of a terrifying moment#and parker's confidence and the very tender almost-kiss make such wonderful distractions#I was going to try so hard to be normal about this today too#the rundown job is a LOT however you read the intimacy okay#but my aro read of it is mostly just internal screaming so far so this'll do
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How come Eliot Spencer never wears claw clips?
Actually, you’re not supposed to wear them while driving, because if you’re in a crash they can break and cut your scalp pretty badly, or even help cause a break! I would assume the same goes if you get hit in the back of the head with something other than a car headrest.
maybe when he's feeling safe and comfortable at home he wears them (an implicit sign of trust and that he truly feels safe and at ease)
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Leverage 4x11- "The Experimental Job"
it remains so so fun to me that near the end of the cross my heart job (with a kid in danger and very personal stakes) nate tells eliot to take someone's gun with them in the ambulance and eliot doesn't even hesitate.
my memory's a little hazy, but… big bang job aside, last dam job aside, does eliot even do that? pick up a gun without immediately taking the ammo out, and with the possible intention to use it? I really don't think he does.
and we don't even see how it goes. by nate's count the villain's got one more contingency plan in place and we don't even see what it is. we skip straight to the hospital like nothing much happened. and maybe it didn't.
I do think the team would look more rattled if eliot flat out shot or killed someone in front of them. and, y'know, I like and respect the spirit of the canon, the rules they like to follow - that the good guys pretty much win, that nobody drops the idiot ball, that no innocents die on their watch, that the team doesn't outright kill anyone - so I'm inclined to say nothing big happened in the time we missed. but sending a warning shot past someone's ear, or even just shooting out some tires, might not be that big.
and sitting in that ambulance with the gun in his hand keeping an eye out for dangers, running through possibilities, his hands shaking slightly with the possibility that he'll have to do what he's good at again, because nate told him to, and because it's for a good cause, and if he can save a kid to help make up for it all he will--
that, to my mind, is very possible.
and that [mean voice] is what's so fun to me.
(and if he was calm in the moment? if he was focused and methodical and nate's order and the kid's life in the balance carried him through the situation until he had time to unpack what it meant later? that's almost worse.)
#I thought i'd talked about this before but if I did it's not on my episode tag so#the cross my heart job#leverage angst#<- though I'm getting bad at recognising it not gonna lie#leverage#orig#eliot#for the record I thiiink we see eliot not immediately take the ammo from a gun in the twelve steps ep#but I read that as him being frazzled that hardison just shot the damn thing and missed.#love is stored in the hyperfixation media#be glad you got this and not the nicholae thing I typed up earlier and immediately filed away instead of posting
shoutout also to the carnival job for: 1) a mark who ends up extremely sympathetic even though he was doing bad shit and very much warranted the leverage treatment 2) a client who ends up a little less sympathetic after the stakes-raising of the kidnap ("you know, sometimes when you lose something that's important, something that centers you, something that you feel you can't live without, you lose how to live." "like my chip!") 3) the very brief and entirely off-screen moment where parker successfully subdues, knocks out, and duct-tapes a sniper, with such confidence and competence that nate counts to three on his fingers waiting for it.
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ok but what is YOUR favourite eliot fight. which eliot fight did they choreograph for YOU specifically
must we choose? is it not enough to simply enjoy the glory of our beloved hitter’s competence for each and every fight, and recognize it to be equal across all encounters? how could a soul possibly parse all of that magnificence for a singular moment?
…ok ok ok fine. real talk: The Carnival Job mirror scene. I mean, my heart literally pangs every time I watch it because I cannot stand watching Eliot hurt that badly, but. I have a meta stowed away somewhere that I still haven’t gotten around to finishing and posting but there is so much symbolism throughout that sequence, between the pan between Roper and Eliot in the mirrors (Roper represents the old monster Eliot sees in himself on a daily basis) and Eliot fighting to save young, already-jaded Molly from both a physical threat and her cynicism (Molly represents the younger, hopeful kid in him, buried somewhere deep down).
Then add in how Eliot persists in getting up every time. The quiet moment of centering, lashing out at Roper with his eyes closed, using sound instead of sight because his eyes betray him. That potent, terrifying ringing in his ears, Molly’s shouts, the disorientation (I will always persist in my thought that this is one of the few times we get a clear view into Eliot’s PTSD responses). The moment of true, pure fear he has, something we see less than a handful of times throughout the show…
…the knowledge that he is almost surely struggling with the fact that he used to be like Roper, he had done these kidnappings before, he had inflicted this pain on someone else equally innocent, and now here he is, on the other side, nearly as terrified as Molly’s father…
And it all culminates in him shattering the mirror of the monster, rejecting and breaking through the person he once was, to clasp Molly in his arms and hold her in the sweetest and tightest hug I’ve ever seen, comforting both her and the kid inside him that’s been begging for hope all along.
So. Yeah. I have a lot of favorites, but for sheer symbolism and storytelling, Carnival Job always takes the cake.
#yelling throwing things standing on my chair to cheer. YES#this is what I'm talking about and then some#the molly parallels. the roper parallels. they even picked someone with similar hair and there's a moment that makes the comparison BLATANT#I'm fine#synapse I'm really intrigued by yr eliot ptsd thoughts AND the meta you mentioned if you ever posted it#the laughter and animal growls/roars in that scene feel VERY significant and out of the norm actually and that is... A Lot. symbolically.#I hadn't given any thought to symbolism before and this is dangerous.#chef's kiss. good stuff.#I'm going to have to look at this post again when my brain stops buzzing (this is the highest of compliments)#the carnival job
watching the carnival job and the stuff about mirrors in it never fails to drive me wild.
it has to be a deliberate tie-in with the bit in the last dam job, right? it's the same season. molly tells eliot she doesn't like what she sees in the mirror; we see him looking in the mirror haggard and bloodied and in full boogeyman mode; eliot tells nate calmly and terribly that he wakes up each day looking in the mirror for the kid he used to be. paraphrasing a little, but still.
a weaker show wouldn't parallel the designated tough guy with a teenage girl like this but I'm so so glad they did.
(actually I just realised synapse says more on this and it's so fucking good so excuse me while i reblog that)
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hottest sexiest moment in all of leverage is when “we are on a reset. the main objective is the girl, we find her and bring her back safe. we lose the chip if we have to, we burn connell if we have to.” and then “nate, if im engaged–” “do you worst.” and then “this is a goodwill gesture. what i want for it in return is your undivided attention and the benefit of the doubt. my name is nate ford and in a few seconds the phone is going to ring.” all with the screams of the people at the carnival in the background
The team was willing to kill everyone in their path to get that child back and honestly that is the sexiest thing on earth
“These guys are very bad guys, the guys that took you, okay? But I’m coming for you – me – and I’m going to find you and I’m going to bring you home. Now you tell me, does that sound like the truth?”
“…yes.”
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Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.
Yes, nonblack people can reblog. I'd appreciate it, in fact, if y'all took the time to vocally support your Black friends/fans in fandom.
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"You're glorifying a fictional murderer!" NO I'M NOT!!!!!!I'm sexualizing him.
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lock picking is like sex. to me
look me in the goddamn eyes and tell me that's not sex. you can't.
SEEEEX!!!!!
SCANDALOUS !!
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Man I'm finally watching Leverage and I'm in love with the way Elliot is so Guard Dog coded. There are several points where he explicitly says that his number one job is keeping Nate safe. By the end of season 3, he's willing to do anything for Nate (and the others, but to me it seems like his primary protectiveness revolves around Nate). He's willing to fight, to die, to do things no one else will, because Nate asked him to. He only sees himself as a weapon. His teeth are bared; he's just relying on Nate to point him at his next target and let him off his leesh.
This this this this THIIIIIIIS
also if you’ve only got through season three, I am so excited to tell you that you have The French Connection Job to look forward to
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Well I like it but it’s not very well written. Also it’s a visual mess. The plot doesnt make any sense and the creators suck and its politics oscillate from mildly problematic to frankly baffling. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. However. the character
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Okay fanfic writers, your mission, should you chose to accept it, is a filthy 100 word drabble, for any pairing, to be posted on Thursday, in time for American Thanksgiving.
Ready, set, write!